Capitalization with compound nouns starting with a number
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Consider the technical term 4-terminal: if I were to start a paragraph with this term, or using it as column heading in a table, would I have to capitalize the t or not?
My understanding is that it should not be capitalized because it is the 4 which counts as first symbol, but maybe I am wrong.
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Per the discussion in the comments: if you're using sentence case, I'd go with 4-terminal (lowercase T) because the 4 is the first character.
(I would still flinch to see a sentence which started with "4-terminal" instead of "Four-terminal," but I'm not in technical writing.)
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